actively learning in & beyond tuscaloosa

Tag: cartography

Tonight, I attended the opening reception for a new museum exhbiti unveiling select artifacts from an archaeological dig that reveals the remains of a Union P.O.W. prison that were once on the present site of Tuscaloosa’s Embassy Suites Hotel. It was so cool seeing pottery from a New York artist ….and oyster shells that likely… Continue reading Civil War P.O.W. prison exhibit up

Many people will arrive in Tuscaloosa tomorrow for our first home game. While some folks think of “Ttown” as a college town, it’s been a city for a very long time. Check out the video above, which relies on footage and text from students in a previous class, to learn more. Next week, students enrolled… Continue reading Tuscaloosa as “city”

Good visit to the University of Alabama’s Cartographic Lab yesterday. Wayne Craig Remington, the lab’s director, and his grad assistant Alex Fries, shared their knowledge of maps with us as we prepare to “map” Tuscaloosa and the state of Alabama in time for the city and state’s bicentennial. I am hoping the students will put… Continue reading taking a map

I am having a blast getting students enrolled this semester in my “Antebellum America” class ready for their cumulative mapmaking project. They must “tell a story” using a map. In other words, they will focus on a theme and see how it can be mapped using existing things and structures no longer with us. To… Continue reading just mapping

I went to South Florida to see my family and friends for the holiday. My beach pick was a reread of Saidiyah Hartman’s Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, one of several books I will assign in my “Gender, Race and Urban” Space class for the Spring 2017 semester. I read this wonderful book… Continue reading old book (and a new one) rock